Question, i guess to those people who have had pokerus in Emerald.
It says stats gained are suppose to double through level up with effected Pokemon, I have pokemon with pokerus (whose statis says pkrs in purple kind of like when they are poisoned) and there is really o change in stats, some go up 1,2,3 points (sometimes zero as well)
With pokerus is the change actually shown when the pokemon levels up, like instead of saying +2 will it show +4, cuz my effected pokemon have experienced no realy change
It doesn't double the actual stat, it doubles EV points. What EV points are almost 'freebee' stat enhancers you can acquire through battling certain pokes. Each Pokemon has a max of 510 EVs that can be obtained total, and 255 EVs (252 if you do your math right, which is coming up next) per individual stat. For every 4 EVs you obtain in a battle, you will get an extra +1 for the designated stat.
For example... say I wanted to boost my Metagross' attack stat. A Carvhana goves out +1 EV to the Attack stat. So to get the full potential out of EVs, I would have to battle 252 of those devilish fishies to get a stat boost of +63 to the Attack stat. That's quite an increase.
But 252 battles is also quite an amount to battle... that's where Pokerus comes in. Since it doubles EV points, instead of getting +1 to Attack, you would get +2, cutting the amount of battles in half. And Pokerus combined with the Macho Brace makes Ev training a walk in the park, since Macho Brace also doubles EVs. That means that with Pokerus AND Macho Brace, each Carvhana will give me +4 EVs to Attack, cutting the amount of battles from 252 all the way down to 63.
Sometimes the increase is obvious, sometimes it isn't. You may just get +5 or +6 to the certain stat for a bunch of levels until it makes up the difference, and sometimes you'll get huge boosts. I remember I used a Rayquaza to help out with EV training ('cause it's difficult to fully EV train a Poke from level 5 on its own!), and one level gave Rayquaza +21 to Attack.
That is my quick explanation to EVs... if you search around the Simple Questions thread, there are some good guides written by me and a few other people on how to go about EV training, and which Pokes give out EVs to which stats.
Hope this helped a bit!
